The Cape Town Declaration

Spanning the globe, we have no common tongue, culture, or creed. We are divided by history and geography, by social customs and forms of government. But in foundations, we are united. We are of one mind on the bedrock of civil society, on the basis of that first and primordial community called the family: We […]

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Gender Ideology and Education

I have been asked to speak to you today about gender ideology in education. This has been a well-laid plan of Marxist philosophy, which is basically diabolical,  contradicting as it does all those things which allow mankind to thrive: family, property, freedom, self-sufficiency, the fulfillment of each one’s talents and potential. The Marxists want control […]

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Uniting Liberalism’s Discontents

Thoughts on the Emerging International Conservative Movement Paranoid. Anti-Intellectual. Discontent. This is how prominent critics have imagined those of us gathered here today. From Richard Hofstadter’s “The Paranoid Style in American Politics”[1] to Alan Brinkley’s Liberalism and its Discontents[2] to self-professed arbiters of acceptable opinion today like the Southern Poverty Law Center, they are united […]

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The Natural Family in a Dying Sensate Culture

The concept of the natural family rests on a vision of the good life: a regime of optimism, responsibility, and love. It presumes a culture that sees the marriage of a man to a woman as the primary aspiration of the young. This culture affirms and defends natural marriage as the surest path to health, […]

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Georgia is Family

I don’t know if I have ever faced more difficulty in preparation of a speech. How do you condense in a few minutes the joyous obligation of a host to tell educated guests about where they are, and how do you put such a description in an international context? When describing the terror that your […]

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Tbilisi Declaration – 2016

From May 15-18, 2016, pro-family leaders from around the globe met in Tbilisi, Georgia, for the World Congress of Families X. At every meeting of the World Congress, a Declaration is delivered at the closing session. Below is the Tbilisi Declaration, which was adopted by acclamation at the closing session of WCF X. The four […]

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The Family of Faith Today

Shaping the Global Future This essay has been adapted from an address first delivered to an international interfaith conference:“The Family: At the Center of Human Development,” hosted in Manila, the Philippines, on March 27-28, 1999. The editors feel that it still accurately describes the early stirrings of the international pro-family movement, and sets the tone […]

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The Benefit of Friends

The Importance of Sexual Restraint and Friendship in Marriage Formation For young adults today, the word “friend” has multiple and sometimes contradictory meanings. For example, the term “friend” can refer to one’s “best friend (BFF)” or “boyfriend” or “girlfriend”—labels that typically convey an ongoing relationship of commitment and concern between two people. But at the […]

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Soulmates, Paradoxes, and the Significance of the Family for American Political Economy

In June of 2009 one of the most prominent conservative governors in the United States disappeared without notice. Where he went—and what he later said about it—illustrate a profound cultural shift in public and private attitudes regarding marriage. This shift, documented and explored by leading American sociologists, confronts a popular misconception about marriage, namely, that […]

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